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Ringfort - rath

Newbliss, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Newbliss, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newbliss
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated in planting
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.15215, -7.15051
SMR number
MO017-073----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a small W-E spur towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin and within view of the site of Newbliss House, which is c. 440m to the NE. A circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) is depicted on the line of the straight W perimeter of a D-shaped wood (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 80m E-W) on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 29m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at ENE: Wth of base 2.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) that survives best N-E-S, and traces of an outer fosse of drain (at ENE: Wth 1.3m; D 0.2m). An entrance is not identified and old tree stumps are present. It was adapted as a tree ring, but it was probably a rath originally.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 9 May 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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